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I must admit... I'm not entirely convinced that one _couldn't_ build an electron hole beam. It would probably be called a quasibeam, but I think it could be done. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.175.61|162.158.175.61]] 05:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC) | I must admit... I'm not entirely convinced that one _couldn't_ build an electron hole beam. It would probably be called a quasibeam, but I think it could be done. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.175.61|162.158.175.61]] 05:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
: You could clearly do this if you fired a beam of physical material to carry the holes. You could also find a way to stimulate the production of holes at a distance, maybe by inducing static charge with electromagnetic emission. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.192|162.158.62.192]] 00:49, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | : You could clearly do this if you fired a beam of physical material to carry the holes. You could also find a way to stimulate the production of holes at a distance, maybe by inducing static charge with electromagnetic emission. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.192|162.158.62.192]] 00:49, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
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Would an electron "vacuum" be an electron hole gun? [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 05:30, 19 August 2023 (UTC) | Would an electron "vacuum" be an electron hole gun? [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 05:30, 19 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
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:Projecting a vacuum (which would, incidentally, quash sound except for that which travels round it or is caused by its creation/collapse) sounds like it needs a whole army of Maxwell's demons carrying their own 'portable hatches' to allow air molecules to leave the volume of the beam whilst batting away any that threaten to move into it. (That might be interesting to see, if noisy.) | :Projecting a vacuum (which would, incidentally, quash sound except for that which travels round it or is caused by its creation/collapse) sounds like it needs a whole army of Maxwell's demons carrying their own 'portable hatches' to allow air molecules to leave the volume of the beam whilst batting away any that threaten to move into it. (That might be interesting to see, if noisy.) | ||
::This might work at absolute zero? For example, you could electrically charge the particles of a motionless gas and then pull them using a focused electric field and make a beam that emits vacuum. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.230.36|172.70.230.36]] 14:32, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | ::This might work at absolute zero? For example, you could electrically charge the particles of a motionless gas and then pull them using a focused electric field and make a beam that emits vacuum. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.230.36|172.70.230.36]] 14:32, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
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:The Meissner Effect is an interesting (practical) version of this. Upon decreasing the possibility of an interior field, an identical increase is detetected immediately outside of it (conserving flux across the whole system, or so it seems to be/makes most sense). | :The Meissner Effect is an interesting (practical) version of this. Upon decreasing the possibility of an interior field, an identical increase is detetected immediately outside of it (conserving flux across the whole system, or so it seems to be/makes most sense). | ||
:Which is not to say that there's no such thing as "a nothing", in the whole weird world of science, or variously vagues analogues to it (if you don't dig too deep, maybe). Some might suggest quantum vacuum decay might be the ultimate substantial 'nothing', but not that we know how to study it... let alone harness it. Yet! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.5|172.71.242.5]] 10:23, 19 August 2023 (UTC) | :Which is not to say that there's no such thing as "a nothing", in the whole weird world of science, or variously vagues analogues to it (if you don't dig too deep, maybe). Some might suggest quantum vacuum decay might be the ultimate substantial 'nothing', but not that we know how to study it... let alone harness it. Yet! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.5|172.71.242.5]] 10:23, 19 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
:Those aren't "beams of nothing" but rather "beams of things that cause another thing to be suppressed/expelled/cancelled" [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.43|172.69.247.43]] 14:49, 20 August 2023 (UTC) | :Those aren't "beams of nothing" but rather "beams of things that cause another thing to be suppressed/expelled/cancelled" [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.43|172.69.247.43]] 14:49, 20 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
− | ::I’m surprised nobody is mentioning an antimatter beam | + | ::I’m surprised nobody is mentioning an antimatter beam. This would eradicate matter in its brilliant path. But you could make a beam of nothing in an environment where there presence of something is controlled by another system, by engaging the system doing this. Shadows are maybe the most simple example of this. Shading a light source makes a beam of darkness. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.230.36|172.70.230.36]] 14:32, 21 August 2023 (UTC) |
:For sure a beam of nothing can exist - it's called Reality TV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.164|172.70.90.164]] 09:57, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | :For sure a beam of nothing can exist - it's called Reality TV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.164|172.70.90.164]] 09:57, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
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I firmly believe the printer deserved it. It knows what it did. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.19.95|162.158.19.95]] | I firmly believe the printer deserved it. It knows what it did. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.19.95|162.158.19.95]] | ||
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Electrical current was defined as the flow of positive charge carriers before it was understood that the negative charge carriers (electrons) were what was moving. When talking about semiconductor physics, this became a problem because we’re very concerned about what particles are actually moving around, so the mathematical fiction of “hole flow” was invented so we wouldn’t have to use negative signs everywhere in the math. An electron hole is a property of p-type semiconductors, a place where electrons can move into, which can also be described as the nonsensical but more mathematically convenient flow of holes in the opposite direction. By analogy, if you had a children’s shape-sorting box, you could build a catapult that threw around the blocks, but you couldn’t build something that threw around the holes in the lid that the blocks fit into. | Electrical current was defined as the flow of positive charge carriers before it was understood that the negative charge carriers (electrons) were what was moving. When talking about semiconductor physics, this became a problem because we’re very concerned about what particles are actually moving around, so the mathematical fiction of “hole flow” was invented so we wouldn’t have to use negative signs everywhere in the math. An electron hole is a property of p-type semiconductors, a place where electrons can move into, which can also be described as the nonsensical but more mathematically convenient flow of holes in the opposite direction. By analogy, if you had a children’s shape-sorting box, you could build a catapult that threw around the blocks, but you couldn’t build something that threw around the holes in the lid that the blocks fit into. | ||
:But... sure you could!? The blocks would function like pegs obstructing unaligned travel, & the "holes" could simply be panels that can only traverse the pegs when their holes are aligned. Just because a gap in a medium lacks one thing, doesn't mean it contains nothing, & the medium itself is necessarily still a thing. None of the math for a QED vacuum even works unless a space defined by masss-energy over time, is defined; there is no "nothing". | :But... sure you could!? The blocks would function like pegs obstructing unaligned travel, & the "holes" could simply be panels that can only traverse the pegs when their holes are aligned. Just because a gap in a medium lacks one thing, doesn't mean it contains nothing, & the medium itself is necessarily still a thing. None of the math for a QED vacuum even works unless a space defined by masss-energy over time, is defined; there is no "nothing". | ||
:[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 15:31, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | :[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 15:31, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
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== Anode ray == | == Anode ray == | ||
A contributor wrote, "Here, the electron hole gun might refer to the anode ray tubes." An anode ray is a beam of positive ions; these are actual particles and not "quasiparticles", and therefore the comic does not refer to them. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.86.243|162.158.86.243]] 07:05, 20 August 2023 (UTC) | A contributor wrote, "Here, the electron hole gun might refer to the anode ray tubes." An anode ray is a beam of positive ions; these are actual particles and not "quasiparticles", and therefore the comic does not refer to them. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.86.243|162.158.86.243]] 07:05, 20 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
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== Who is firing the beam? == | == Who is firing the beam? == | ||
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Quoting the article as of my writing, "It should be noted however, that a hole in the QED vacuum is a real particle, known as the positron. See the {{w|Dirac sea}}." That very linked Wikipedia article says that the Dirac Sea is ''not'' the QED vacuum, that they are equivalent but different models. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:20, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | Quoting the article as of my writing, "It should be noted however, that a hole in the QED vacuum is a real particle, known as the positron. See the {{w|Dirac sea}}." That very linked Wikipedia article says that the Dirac Sea is ''not'' the QED vacuum, that they are equivalent but different models. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:20, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
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I disagree with the punchline here. a layman might be angry about this hypothetical device, but a physicist would understand that an electron hole is indistinguishable from a positron. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.118|162.158.158.118]] 17:24, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | I disagree with the punchline here. a layman might be angry about this hypothetical device, but a physicist would understand that an electron hole is indistinguishable from a positron. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.118|162.158.158.118]] 17:24, 21 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
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